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  • UNRWA sacks staffers who allegedly participated in Oct. 7 attack; US halts funding

    01/26/2024 2:03:08 PM PST · by fruser1 · 11 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 1/26/2024 | Jacob Magid
    The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Friday it had sacked “several” employees accused by Israel of involvement in Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack on southern communities. The accusation also prompted the United States to suspend critical funding to the organization. The decision was taken “to protect the agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance,” said UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini. “Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution,” he said. A senior Israeli official told the Axios news site that the Shin Bet and the IDF provided information that pointed to...
  • Texas grandfather was wrongly ID'd as Sunglass Hut robber by facial recognition technology and GANG-RAPED after being jailed for crime that took place while he was in California, lawsuit claims

    01/25/2024 5:16:21 PM PST · by fruser1 · 31 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/25/2024 | Mackenzie Tatananni
    Murphy, a grandfather who grew up in Texas, was in Sacramento, California when two armed men stormed into the Sunglass Hut on West Gray in Houston. uring the investigation, officers received a call from Anthony Pfleger, the head of loss prevention for EssilorLuxottica. Pfleger said he worked with Macy’s loss prevention to determine that the person who robbed the store was Murphy. 'Using artificial intelligence and facial recognition software, EssilorLuxottica and Macy’s took the video from the robbery and determined that Murphy was the robber,' the lawsuit states. 'The video was recorded by Kimco’s poor low-quality cameras.'
  • For second day in a row, protesters block aid reaching Gaza from Israel

    01/25/2024 7:40:45 AM PST · by fruser1 · 25 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 1/25/2024 | Staff
    A small group of protesters, including relatives of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, demonstrated at the Kerem Shalom border crossing on Thursday to picket humanitarian trucks going into the Palestinian enclave while demanding that aid be cut off until the captives held by terrorists in the territory are freed. Part of the group was initially stopped by a roadblock but they made their way through, walking several kilometers toward the crossing for a second day in a row. It was not immediately clear what impact the protest had on truck movements. On Wednesday the demonstrators held up over 100...
  • Woman, 32, who stabbed her date 100 times to death in weed-induced frenzy is sentenced to 100 HOURS community service - as judge says she 'had no control over her actions' after cannabis caused 'psychotic break'

    01/23/2024 2:37:21 PM PST · by fruser1 · 137 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/23/2024 | Eve Simmons
    A California woman who stabbed a man she was dating 100 times and killed him, before turning the knife on herself and her dog, has been handed 100 hours of community service. Bryn Spejcher, 32, was given the astonishingly low sentence following psychiatrists' ruling that the tragedy was '100 percent' caused by cannabis-induced psychosis, which she suffered after taking two hits of the victim's bong. The judge ruled that Spejcher 'experienced a psychotic break from reality' and 'had no control over her actions' when she killed Chad O'Melia, then 26, on Memorial Day weekend 2018. She will spend the 100...
  • EU’s top diplomat: Palestinian state may need to be imposed on Israel from outside

    01/19/2024 1:59:16 PM PST · by fruser1 · 101 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 1/19/2024 | Jacob Magid
    European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday that the only peaceful solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict included the creation of a Palestinian state, and he suggested this might need to “be imposed from the outside,” without Israel’s agreement. “The actors are too opposed to be able to reach an agreement autonomously,” Borrell said. “If everyone is in favor of this solution, the international community will have to impose it.”
  • Chinese marathon runner, 52, is disqualified for CHAIN-SMOKING throughout entire race

    01/18/2024 3:55:30 PM PST · by fruser1 · 39 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/18/2024 | Summer Goodkind
    A Chinese marathon runner who chain-smoked his entire way through a 26.2 miles race has been disqualified, despite achieving a competitive time. Uncle Chen, nicknamed the 'Smoking Brother', managed to complete the Xiamen Marathon in three hours and 33 minutes on January 7 this year. But despite crossing the finish line only five minutes slower than his 3:28 finish two years ago, the 52-year-old was disqualified for 'smoking on the track'. He placed 574th out of more than 1,500 runners.
  • Electric Vehicle Fire

    01/16/2024 2:06:42 PM PST · by fruser1 · 22 replies
    You Tube ^ | 1/11/2024 | South Metro Fire and Rescue, Centennial Colorado
    Nice vid on EV fires where the use of an Electric Vehicle Fire Blanket is used to smother the fire. They cost about 3k and weigh about 60 lbs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itGeAq9rBeYRunning time about 8 mins.
  • Alaska Airlines pilot frantically requests ATC help after plane window BLEW OUT over Portland

    01/06/2024 5:18:36 AM PST · by fruser1 · 71 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 1/6/2024 | Alice Wright
    Alaska flight 1282, a Boeing 737-9 MAX bound for Ontario in California, left Portland just after 5pm local time on Friday when a deactivated emergency door used as a regular cabin window blew out at 16,000 feet. The controversial jet was carrying 171 passengers and six crew. ...ripping a child's shirt off and sucking passengers phones out of the plane. The Boeing 737-9 MAX rolled off the assembly line just two months ago, receiving its certification in November 2023, according to FAA record posted online Miraculously, no injuries were reported on the plane, which had only gone into service in...
  • Justin Trudeau's government awards MEDAL to 'champion of diversity' trans activist who got Canada's oldest rape shelter defunded for refusing to house transgender women

    12/27/2023 4:14:35 PM PST · by fruser1 · 34 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/27/2023 | Nic White
    Morgane Oger, a transgender woman, was given a Meritorious Service Medal by Canadian Governor-General Mary Simon on December 7. Official photos show her receiving the award alongside dozens of other Canadians honored for their 'exceptional deeds'. Oger was chosen for the award in 2018 and it was unclear why it took five years for her to actually receive it. Oger was at the time spearheading an effort to strip Vancouver Rape Relief of city funding because it refused to shelter transgender women. Vancouver City Council in March 2019 pulled its CAN$34,000 a year grant from 2020 unless the shelter, the...
  • I'm a food safety expert and here's a what you CAN still eat even if it's mouldy

    12/10/2023 8:04:13 AM PST · by fruser1 · 31 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/10/2023 | Rebecca Whittaker
    -Avoid mouldy grains, nuts and apples -Avoid mouldy soft cheese, berries and bread -But some cheeses ARE safe One of the only foods you can eat even if it is mouldy is hard cheese. 'Hard, dense foods like hard cheeses or firm fruits and vegetables are more resistant to penetration by the mould so the mould could be cut out and the food consumed', he added. To be safe Dr Fuchs recommends people cut off about 2.5cm of food around and below the mouldy area. However, when mould is specifically used to make a product, such as blue cheese, it...
  • PA says it’s working with US on post-war plan for Gaza, hopes to include Hamas

    12/08/2023 7:08:59 AM PST · by fruser1 · 48 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 12/8/2023 | Staff
    Ramallah is working with US President Joe Biden’s administration on a plan for running the Gaza Strip after the Israel-Hamas war ends, even as the Palestinian Authority’s prime minister expressed hope that Hamas will be a partner in the process, according to a Bloomberg report. Citing a senior Palestinian official, the news outlet reported that US officials recently met with PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh on a plan for post-war Gaza. “We’re not going to go there on an Israeli military plan,” Shtayyeh told Bloomberg. “Our people are there. We need to put together a mechanism, something we’re working on...
  • Moment Arlington home explodes in gigantic fireball razing it to the ground after suspect inside set off flares and fired at SWAT team preparing to serve a search warrant

    12/05/2023 8:30:16 AM PST · by fruser1 · 28 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 12/5/2023 | Stephen M. Lapor, James Reynolds
    Astounding video shows the house erupt, sending debris in all directions as a SWAT vehicle sat outside. The sky was lit up in bright orange as glowing particles of the explosion fell down over the Virginia neighborhood. After SWAT teams arrived, the unidentified person inside the duplex began firing at officers, it is claimed. They prepared to enter the property - only for it to explode in a huge blast that sent debris and a fireball roaring into the sky.
  • Thousands of Gazans head north, in potential challenge to IDF’s campaign after truce

    11/24/2023 6:51:51 AM PST · by fruser1 · 29 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 11/24/2023 | Emanuel Fabian
    As Israel’s four-day truce with Hamas came into effect in Gaza on Friday morning, thousands of people who had fled to areas near Gaza’s border with Egypt were seeking to return to their villages with children and pets in their arms and their belongings loaded onto donkey carts or car roofs. Overnight Thursday-Friday, Hamas urged Gazans to return to the north of the Strip, where the IDF has focused its ground offensive for the past three weeks. The truce deal, under which the Gaza-governing Hamas terror group is set to free 50 Israeli hostages over four days from Friday, bars...
  • Parents are slammed for viral video showing young children playing with ultra-realistic guns and flashing cash at 'NBA YoungBoy themed' birthday party

    11/16/2023 2:38:16 AM PST · by fruser1 · 21 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/16/2023 | Martha Williams
    The parents of a young Louisiana child have been slammed for hosting a gangster-themed party where they were filmed playing with realistic looking guns and dancing to explicit rap music. The 'NBA YoungBoy themed' children's birthday party in Louisiana went viral online after video was released of five young boys dancing while also flashing fake cash.
  • ‘DEI Teacher’ In Jewish Area Says Jews Kill Palestinians To Sell Their Organs

    11/13/2023 3:20:20 PM PST · by fruser1 · 55 replies
    Daily Wire ^ | 11/13/2023 | Luke Rosiak
    Sabrina Khan-Williams, the “team leader/diversity, equity & inclusion teacher” in the World Studies department of Tilden Middle School, contends in social media posts that Hamas’ paragliding attack on a rave was a hoax. “Debunked!! No music festival attack. Babies were not burned. Women were not violated,” she wrote on Facebook. “Palestinian’s [sic] are being killed and their organs are being sold,” wrote Khan-Williams, who teaches in Bethesda, Maryland, which has a significant Jewish population. Christopher Cram, a spokesman for MCPS, would not explain what the role of a “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Teacher” was, or how “inclusion” could encompass Khan-Williams’...
  • YOUR baby's DNA is being stored for DECADES in government labs and can be used in police investigations without your permission

    11/09/2023 3:06:20 PM PST · by fruser1 · 29 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/9/2023 | Stacy Liberatore
    Nearly every US-born baby has blood drawn to check their risk of about 60 rare diseases within hours of coming into the world. What many parents may not know is that these DNA samples can be stored in a government lab indefinitely, allowing law enforcement access to blood for investigations into a child's relative. New Jersey can store samples for up to 23 years, while others like California, Massachusetts and Maine are indefinite.
  • US has 2MILLION more retirees than predicted as COVID shutdowns lead elderly to quit work and leave employers scrambling to fill rolls

    11/07/2023 3:14:42 AM PST · by fruser1 · 79 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 11/7/2023 | Dominic Yeatman
    As of September, we estimate about 1.98 million excess retirees.' But with unemployment below 4 percent for the longest time in 50 years, employers are feeling the pressure from a tight labor market and eyeing opportunities to tempt seniors back into the workforce. More than 2,500 businesses, including Bank of America, Microsoft and H&R Block have signed the AARP pledge to build an age-inclusive workforce with the number of new signatures more than doubling over the last year. Despite increasing eagerness from employers, the ship may have sailed for those who retire with just 3 percent getting a job in...
  • Harris calls UAE and Bahrain leaders, as White House aims to expand her role on Israel-Hamas war

    11/06/2023 4:01:48 PM PST · by fruser1 · 40 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 11/7/2023 | Jacob Magid
    The White House readouts from both calls are largely identical and include the same talking points that Washington has been reiterating since the start of the war one month ago. In both calls Harris stressed the administration’s commitment to increasing humanitarian aid for Gaza, protecting civilian lives as Israel advances in its war against Hamas, rejecting calls from some in Israel to forcibly displace Palestinians and working toward a two-state solution.
  • Humor: Old Saturday Night Live - The Bel Airabs

    10/27/2023 5:00:10 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 17 replies
    Bit Chute ^ | 12/8/1979 | Riprake
    Now listen to a story 'bout a man named Abdul - The poor Bedouin barely kept his family full, and then one day he was shootin' at some Jews, and up through the ground came a bubblin' crude. Oil that is, Virgin Perrier, Kuwait Kool-aid, Saudi Soda. Well the first thing you know, Abdul's a billionaire. The kinfolks said, "Abdul, move away from there!", they said, "Californy is the place without a care!", so they loaded up the Rolls and they moved to Bel Air - next to Beverly Hills, that is - swimmin' pools, movie stars, Jews...
  • Erdogan says Hamas not terrorists but ‘mujahideen defending their lands,’ cancels Israel trip

    10/25/2023 3:13:03 AM PDT · by fruser1 · 29 replies
    Times of Israel ^ | 10/25/2023 | Lazar Berman
    Speaking to a gathering of his AK party faction in parliament, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that Israel “can view Hamas as a terrorist organization along with the West. The West owes you a lot. But Turkey does not owe you anything.” “Hamas is not a terrorist organization, it is a group of mujahideen defending their lands,” he says to a standing ovation. Erdogan also says he is canceling plans to visit Israel because of its “inhumane” war.